The 2007 De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Social Class Health and Mortality Differentials: Are There Important Selection Effects?

Duane Alwin, Ph.D. is the Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography at Penn State. He is best known for his work on the development of belief systems over the life span, as well as the social, demographic, and historical factors related to cognitive decline in older age. Dr. Alwin's recent work focuses on the implications of population processes, e.g. mortality selection, for issues of generalization and inference in the study subgroup differences in health and cognition.

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